The eastern horizon was graying when we came to a small spinney at a cross-roads.
The darkness clung close to the ground, the spinney between our lines was a bulk of shadow thinning out near the stars.
I went in by the wrong gate; there were so many on the left, and found myself in a dark spinney where the rain was dripping heavily from the branches of the trees.
It transpired later that she and Edna had become acquainted and intimate at Westford the previous spring during a few weeks which Mrs. Spinney had spent there in the preparation of three new lectures for the coming season.
Dame Martha had some humor and no understanding; Mrs. Spinneyhas some understanding and no humor.
He slipped from the Gorse to the spinney dark (There were curled grey growths on the oak tree bark) He saw no more of the terrier pup.
The soft horn blew, Tom turned the hounds up wind; they drew Up wind, down hill, by spinney side.
FULL CRY Meanwhile the fox passed Nonesuch Farm, Keeping the spinney on his right.
He didn’t believe, indeed, until he saw Edwin climb on to the top of the wooden fence in the nightingale’s spinney at the back of the Head’s house and drop over into the road.
In the spinney at the back of the head master’s house there was a nightingale to which his evening dreams were dedicated.
You'd have thought, considering Clive was the owner of the spinney only a year ago, a fellow would have been ashamed to order him off what had been his own property.
From the said house a path led through a long spinney to the high-road, and made a short-cut for its inhabitants.
At midday, leaving Abner in a small spinney of firs, he went off to the nearest village with the price of a quart, and returned a couple of hours later laden not only with the beer but with a good-sized fowl and pockets full of potatoes.
Fortunately, the Spinney was well-nigh leafless, and a bright but wintry sun penetrated it completely.
It was to the Home Spinney he had been apparently bound, when something--none knew what--had changed his purpose.
Has anybody been about the Home Spinney this morning?
When I took the train for Georgetown that evening, I ran bang into old Hiram Spinney and as we settled down in the same seat, he began to quiz me about the orders I had placed.
If he had come into the spinney he would have seen them, but he kept straight on.
I'll meet you at Hunter's Spinney and see you home.
In Hunter's Spinney on midsummer night there's things moving as move no other time; things free as was fast; things crying out as have been a long while hurted.
Hazel never wanted to think of that night, nor see theSpinney again.
It was cold in the Callow--a spinney of silver birches and larches that topped a round hill.
He knew there was not a soul near, for the people from the farm at the foot of the spinney had all gone to church.
Hunter's Spinneyover again--up to when we got so gloomy.
When opposite he loses sight of it; a spinney of tall poplars drawing curtain-like between him and the higher bank.
For this quaint conglomeration of dwellings is on the opposite side of the stream; all save the chapel, and the priest's house, standing some distance back from the bank, and screened by a spinney of trees.
It was in the midst of this that he met his senior employer--at the corner of a thin spinney which ran along the edge of a disused quarry.
At the spinney overhanging Hobwick Quarry he had seen Mallalieu and Stoner, and had at once noticed that something in the shape of a quarrel was afoot.
As I got to that spinney at the edge of the quarry, I saw Mallalieu and our clerk.
A scream on the hidden side of the spinneybeneath them linked up the field, believing in one of the glorious surprises that light up the dragging end of the day.
The Duke of York himself was chased from spinney to spinney and escaped by a stroke of luck, finding a bridge across the last brook held by a detachment of Hessians.
Go you on through spinney far as Edge Pool, and I’ll take and lock this here Radley up till morning.
The wood, which was a well-known spinney famous for pheasants, was reached before very long, though with painful effort.
Scent ought to lie well, and we're sure to find a fox in that spinneyof Antill's.
The hounds got him out of the spinney where he was known to reside, in no time, but he immediately took refuge in another and a larger one half a mile or so off.
There was Pailthorpe Spinney to the left, before you got to the first brook, and no stopping of earths there could prevent Master Reynard from poking his nose amongst them to try, if he were so minded.
You will just go round by that spinney to see if the earth you gave orders to be stopped up is properly closed.
To gain access to the spinney we had to climb a granite wall and drop on the other side--the drop, in addition to being steep, being rendered all the more precarious by reason of the man-traps the keepers were in the habit of setting.
Early the next day, Mr. Vance set out for the spinney and cottage; they were not to be found--nobody had ever heard of them.
One misty night in October, my friend Alec and I, both being keen on rabbiting, determined to visit a spinney adjoining the Cortachy estate, in pursuit of our quarry.
There was a long spinney rather than a wood stretching down a bottom, through which a brook ran.
The fox made his way along the whole length, and then traversing, so as to avoid the hounds, ran a ring up the hillside, and back into the spinney again.
I asked the owner of the spinney about the matter.
On the other side of the brook is a spinney of beeches, with smooth, straight trunks, like pillars.
The rooks are cawing in the elms, the cuckoo's note has been heard in the spinney for some time before these little visitors pass in jerky flight up and down the valley.
Another owl behaved in somewhat similar fashion in a spinney close to Axmouth, South Devon, punishing a coastguard so severely that the man took to his heels.
Early Nightingale When first we hear the shy-come nightingales, They seem to mutter oer their songs in fear, And, climb we eer so soft the spinney rails, All stops as if no bird was anywhere.
Middle Copse, a small spinney about 200 yards to the front, was seen to be teeming with Bosche who were effectively dealt with by our Lewis guns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spinney" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clump; copse; grove; orchard; stand; thicket; tope
